Diabetic Sugar Cookies

These diabetic sugar cookies are delicious and easy to make. In our household, we frost them, sprinkle them and really make it a family craft. For every holiday we bake and make cookies to fit that occasion. Sugar cookies are the best for cookie cutters. So, get out your cookie cutters and start baking away!

Almond Sugar Cookies(leave out the almonds for a regular sugar cookie)

5 tbsp Margarine (75 g)

1 1/2 tbsp Fructose** (22.5 ml)

1 tbsp Egg white (15 ml)

1/4 tsp Almond, vanilla, or lemon extract (1.25 ml)

1 cup Unbleached flour (125 g)

1/8 tsp Baking soda (.6 ml)

1 pinch Cream of tartar

32 each Almond slices

**Substitute 4 pkts. saccharin or 8 pkts. aspartame or 4 packets acesulfame-K for the fructose. It will not change the exchanges.

2. Form into 1/2-inch (1.5 cm) balls. Place on a nonstick cookie sheet.

3. Dip a flat-bottomed glass into flour and press down on each ball to flatten cookie. Top each cookie with an almond slice. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, until lightly browned. Transfer to parchment or wax paper to cool.